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Midnight Special
REVIEW
Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst and Jaeden Lieberher are superb in Jeff Nichols
gorgeously crafted and emotionally resonant sci-fi thriller BY DAVID ROONEY
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ANKE ENGELKE
The German comedian and host
of the Berlinales opening-night gala
drew loud and sustained applause
for her digs at far right anti-immigrant
protests in the country, comparing
demonstrators to film Nazis.
HAN WEI
Suburbicon
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Marjorie Prime
A service that provides holographic re-creations of deceased loved ones allows a man (Tim Robbins) to come
face-to-face with the younger version of his late father (Jon Hamm) in Marjorie Prime. Lois Smith and Geena Davis
also star in the Michael Almereyda film, which Fortitude International is handling in Berlin.
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n his deathbed in
2009, celebrated Israeli
writer Amos Elon
begged his daughter, documentary director Danae Elon, never
to return to Israel.
But Elon ignored her fathers
dying wish and, with a camera
and family in tow, left Brooklyn
in 2010 for Jerusalem, where she
grew up, to touchingly honor the
memory of her dad.
The result is P.S. Jerusalem, a
documentary with a home-movie
aesthetic set for a European
premiere in Berlin as part of the
Forum sidebar.
P.S. Jerusalem captures Elon
and her family as they are
quickly exposed to, and eventually exhausted by, the seeming
endless war, occupation and
human-rights abuses during their
three years in the city.
I wanted to be brutally honest.
I didnt want to hide behind
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30 YEARS OF PRIDE
Long before LGBT content went mainstream, the
Berlinale shined a much-needed spotlight on queer
cinema with the groundbreaking Teddy Awards
By SCOTT ROXBOROUGH
ACK T H EN W E W ER E
idealists, we were
convinced that film had
political power, says
Wieland Speck, recalling
the day back in 1987 when he
and Manfred Salzgeber launched
the Berlinales Teddy Awards,
the worlds first-ever honor for
LGBT films. It made sense
to do it here. Berlin was always
a haven for queer people, before
the second world war, before
the first world war even, it
was a refuge.
In the years since, the Teddys
became a refuge themselves, for
queer filmmakers and their work.
Long before movies with gay and
transgender subjects became
mainstream, Berlin honored
5
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1 Almodovar won the first-ever best film Teddy in 1987 for Law of Desire, a crazy comedy-thriller melodrama that focused on the love and sexual disorientation of siblings Pablo and Tina hes gay, shes
transgender. In lieu of a trophy, Teddys co-founder Speck went to a local shop and bought Almodovar a teddy bear for his prize. 2 Cholodenko in 2010, accepting the Teddy for The Kids Are All Right, a feature
that showed, with its depiction of a lesbian couple as conservative, even conventional, that queer cinema had definitely cracked the mainstream. 3 Tilda Swinton with German actor Daniel Schmid in 1988,
when Swinton won the first Teddy Jury Award for her performance in Jarmans The Last of England. Swinton left the awards ceremony that night to join a gay-rights demonstration, which was protesting the
passing of Clause 28 in the U.K., which banned positive depictions of homosexuality, a law that stayed on the books in Britain until 2003. Swinton became a Teddys regular and received the events inaugural
lifetime achievement award in 2008. 4 Javier Bardem didnt have a film in Berlin in 2006, but the Spanish star glammed it up for the Teddy party, always a festival highlight. 5 Todd Haynes debut feature Poison
premiered in Sundance, where it won the Grand Jury Award. It followed up in Berlin with the Teddy for best film, launching the Carol helmers international career. 6 German cinema icon Udo Kier, whose
career has included films with Andy Warhol, Van Sant and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, received a long-overdue lifetime achievement Teddy in 2015.
3 QUESTIONS WITH
CHRISTINE VACHON
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LATIN
AMERICA:
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Mexico
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Brazil
Chile
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overall film production and box-office numbers seem to break records every year,
and there is certainly plenty of talent, with local auteurs regularly making the
jump to Hollywood (think Narcos co-creator Jose Padilha or Hateful Eight co-star
Demian Bichir). But while the festival circuit consistently honors the regions best with top
awards, only a handful of local films mostly comedies featuring TV stars make a dent at
the local box office. And when they do succeed, they take most of an already reduced share
of the market, which is heavily concentrated and dominated by Hollywood blockbusters. The
contrast between the art house and the multiplex is especially acute in these five markets:
MEXICO
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$892 million
HIGHEST-GROSSING FOREIGN FILM
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TALENT TO WATCH
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100 mins., France, Gaumont
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USA, Protagonist Pictures
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CinemaxX 2, 138 mins., Japan,
Village
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Mexico, Mexican Film Institute
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audacious distributors.
An opening sequence-shot
gives us a good idea of where
the sly, tomboyish and rather
fragile Ana (Richard) finds
herself: Working as an assistant on a movie, she drives
around in circles with the
lead actress (Kate Moran),
arriving almost an hour late
to set. After getting balled
out by one of the bosses,
who makes her cry on the
spot, she takes the productions Porsche Panamera for
a joy ride all the way to her
native Strasbourg, where
she shows up at the apartFrench director Rachel Langs debut is a sly,
ment of her straight-talking
affecting portrait of a wayward young woman
grandmother, Odette
BY JORDAN MINTZER
(Claude Gensac).
The rest of the movie follows Anas zigzagN BADEN BADEN, A N A I M L E SS 26 -Y E A Rging trajectory as she tries to decide what her
old woman returns to her hometown of
next move is going to be, especially after a
Strasbourg, France, reconnecting with
nasty fall lands Odette in the hospital. While
old flames while desperately trying to build a
installing a new shower in the womans bathshower stall in her grandmothers bathroom.
room a process that takes several weeks and
Thats not much of a story to build a film
allows for a few moments of home improveon, but writer-director Rachel Lang and star
Salome Richard manage to craft an intriguing ment slapstick Ana gets back together with
her ex, Boris (Olivier Chantreau), a dashingly
feature debut filled with keen observations
pretentious video artist who is obviously not
and slices of dark humor in a work that may
the guy she needs though seems to be the
stretch the patience of certain viewers while
guy she still wants.
pleasing fans of stark art-house narratives.
Very little happens in terms of a traditional
This Franco-Belgian co-production should
plot, though Lang manages to keep things
see fest action and niche theatrical bids from
Richard is
a young
Frenchwoman
searching for
purpose.
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Arlaud, Olivier Chantreau, Zabout Breitman
Director Rachel Lang
95 minutes
stations and cheap motels dotted along lonely roads under beautiful,
brooding skies, shot in atmospherically grainy widescreen by Nichols
regular cinematographer Adam Stone.
As the fugitives race toward a preordained destination with a fourday deadline and mounting concerns about Altons declining health,
other forces mobilize on their tail, including NSA officer Paul Sevier
(Adam Driver).
The actors are excellent. Dunst follows her sublimely off-kilter
work on season two of Fargo with a complete about-face in a subdued
yet moving portrait of a woman torn between maternal love and belief
in a higher purpose. And Shannon adds another powerful entry to
his gallery of burdened souls, finding quiet moments of tenderness in
Roy. Lieberher is a model of naturalness here,
handling the everykid scenes as effortlessly as
those divulging the full scope of Altons origin,
power and intelligence. Midnight Special confirms Nichols uncommon knack for breathing
dramatic integrity and emotional depth into
genre material.
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Competition
Cast Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten
Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher
Director Jeff Nichols // 111 min.
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REVIEWS
French-Canadian film critic turned director Denis Cotes latest is a gratingly mannered and
unpleasant modern fable about a selfish businessmans moral awakening BY DAVID ROONEY
N A N I N T E RV I EW
Hyndman
and Sichov are
more than just
colleagues.
its still quite serious. Its the story of a guy who needs
to confront himself in the world to get his wife back,
because shes ill with a mysterious depression.
So many Quebec directors like yourself, Denis
Cote
Villeneuve, Jean-Marc Valle, Philippe Falardeau, are
making the leap to Hollywood. Do you have similar aspirations?
Well, well, well. First, in Quebec, I have a reputation of working far in
the left field. Im the arty, festival guy. People respect me for that. But
Im considered a difficult filmmaker, not commercial at all. After Vic +
Flo, I had U.S. agents asking if Id consider working in Hollywood. I said,
Its all new to me, I dont know whether I would say yes or no. But I
dont want to make cheap, commercial scripts for money. Im not in
love with money, or Hollywood. So its not a need or an ambition for me
like other Quebec directors. So if it happens, its really by accident, and
someone would need to come to me and convince me.
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REVIEWS
Olszanska is a
lesbian loner
turned murderer.
I, Olga Hepnarova
T RU E STORY OF M EN TA L
Panorama
Cast Michalina Olszanska, Martin
Pechlat, Klara Meliskova
Director Petr Kazda, Tomas
Weinreb // 106 minutes
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Homo Sapiens
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Sparks fly between
Mastoura
and Messaoud.
Hedi
BY DEBORAH YOUNG
T U N ISI A N M A N IS TOR N BET W EEN A CON V EN T IONA L
OMO SA PIENS A R E
conspicuously absent in
Austrian documentarian
Nikolaus Geyrhalters latest film,
which chronicles a series of manmade structures that have been
left to rot after natural disasters,
human neglect or time itself have
taken their toll.
Similar in form to the directors previous nonfiction studies
(Our Daily Bread, Over the Years),
this wordless assemblage of fixed
shots is as much a museum piece
as it is a strictly art house item,
inviting viewers to sit back and
let the imagery consume them.
Far from commercial, its still a
compelling modern study of man
vs. nature, with the latter clearly
getting the upper hand.
Filming in places ranging from
Fukushima to Bulgaria, with
stops in the U.S., South America
and parts of Europe, Geyrhalter
who shot all the material
himself presents us with an
array of homes, offices, shopping malls, hospitals, schools,
churches, movie theaters and
military installations in various
states of decay. Where they are
located and why they have been
abandoned is never explained,
nor does the filmmaker attempt
to appease us with scenes of
people rebuilding or moving on:
there are simply no people to
speak of, and at best one can see
a few birds or frogs enjoying their
new habitats.
Reminiscent of photos by Allan
Competition
Cast Majd Mastoura, Rym Ben Messaoud, Sabah Bouzouita
Director Mohamed Ben Attia // 88 minutes
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War on Everyone
The American debut from Calvary director John Michael McDonagh is an amusing
but rather glib homage to vintage detective-duo movies BY STEPHEN DALTON
BER L I NA L E WOR L D PR EM IER E , JOH N M ICH A EL
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